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Candia Insula - Archipelagi Insularum Aliquot Descrip.
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Candia Insula - Archipelagi Insularum Aliquot Descrip.

A rare and beautiful 1584 Abraham Ortelius map of Crete and ten other Greek islands: Metellino (Mitiline, Lesbos), Cerigo, Scarpanto (Karpathos), Nicsia (Naxos), Santorini, Milo, Stalimene (Limnos), Negroponte (Euboea), Rodus (Rhodes, home of the Colossus of Rhodes), and Scio (Chios). Beautiful, rich, hand color.

Date
1584
Place
Greece
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
4,000 × 2,895 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

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"Candia Insula - Archipelagi Insularum Aliquot Descrip." (1584). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1584_Ortelius_Map_of_Crete_(Candia)_and_10_Greek_Islands_-_Geographicus_-_CandiaInsula-ortelius-1584.jpg

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